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| Exhibit A |
1) Laura is wearing an honest-to-God fall outfit at school today! With pants! And an autumnal-orange shirt! She looks both adorable and grown-up. She's closer to 2 than to 1, after all (see Exhibit A)!
2) It's my dad's birthday! Happy birthday, Dad!
3) It was Laura's buddy's 2nd birthday this weekend! Laura got to wield a bat and whack her first pinata (see Exhibit B)!
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| Exhibit B |
4) We went to the State Fair yesterday, and lucked out on the rain. We stayed dry, ate fried oreos (yummy, I think. Maybe not. No wait, they were good... er?), tortured Laura on a Carousel, and watched her flirt with her favorite boyfriend on the tractors (see Exhibit C). The fair was when I realized, OMG I am such a suburbanite. There were teenage girls leading cows to the competition ring like it was the cool thing to do. Where I grew up? Horses were the cool thing to lead around on a bridle, not cows. And I was all, "Are there really that many working farms in Maryland?" And Nate was all, "Um. DUH!" So I guess I need to see more of Maryland before I can really call myself "Mrs. MidAtlantic," because I'm clearly from the Northeast, sorta.
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| Exhibit C |
5) This morning was chilly. Chilly enough that I wanted to wear flats, and then discovered that I can no longer safely walk in any of my fall-appropriate flats, because I have killed them. Which means SHOE SHOPPING!
6) It's now cool and fall-ish enough outside that I can legitimately work on the Christmas projects I started in July without looking like a (completely) crazy person! Yay! Christmas!
7) Pumpkin Spice Lattes are back in town.
